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" One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. "
Dennis Prager
Mind
Belief
College
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" To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. "
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" Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? "
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" Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. "
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" In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither. "
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" The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes. "
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" I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes. "
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" Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. "
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" There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not. "
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" The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. "
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" The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things. "
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" Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. "
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" Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. "
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" Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate. "
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" Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. "
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" I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. "
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" The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian. "
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" Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?' "
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" There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. "
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" Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. "
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" Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. "
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" The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.' "
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" People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. "
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" Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. "
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" There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. "
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" The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. "
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" Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. "
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" For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. "
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" There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. "
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" There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal. "
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